Blake Lively and Ellen Burstyn are set to star in The Age of Adaline, with Lively in the title role of a 29-year-old woman who stops aging after a near-fatal accident in the early 1900s.

Sounding like a Benjamin Button-Forrest Gump mash-up, the story has her on a worldwide journey throughout the 20th Century, keeping her secret intact until she meets the man of her dreams.

Lee Toland Krieger (Celeste and Jesse Forever) is directing. U.S. producing partners Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi have a long history with B.C’s film scene that includes past features The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Underworld: Evolution, She’s the Man and Elegy. The Age of Adaline is scheduled to start two months filming in March.

One-time Gossip Girl star Lively shouldn’t have trouble finding a place to stay during filming — she’s married to Vancouver’s Ryan Reynolds.

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